Skagit River Salmon Festival | September 2014

Skagit River Salmon Festival 2014 SALMON FESTIVAL

Saturday, September 6 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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A supplement to the Skagit Valley Herald and Anacortes American

SWINOMISH HONORS THE SACRED SALMON with all of you, who help to ensure that this mighty resource is here for generations to come.

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e are honored to be a leading partner who is committed to restoring and protecting the salmon. Just as

our Children do, the salmon need just a few important elements to survive: an abundance of clean water and a healthy home and habitat. Swinomish People have lived in the Skagit for over 10,000 years, and it has been our sacred responsibility to ensure that our ancestral lands, waters and resources are sustained, so that our children’s children will have an opportunity to live the life we know and love in the Skagit.

The Northwest has a wonderful golden star in the Lower 48, and we need to work together to restore and protect our salmon.

FACT: The Skagit is the only river in the lower 48 that spawns all five species of wild salmon.

Photo Courtesy of Swinomish Tribe

We must stand together and shout to the World our message, “Salmon is important to the people who call Skagit their home and it is an element that sustains a way of life for many people. Not to have that salmon would be tragic.”

Photo by: John Scurlock Courtesy of Swinomish Tribe

May the Creator bless you all for your kindness and consideration. ~ Chairman Brian Cladoosby For more information contact: www.swinomish-nsn.gov Chairman Brian Cladoosby, bcladoosby@swinomish.nsn.us (360) 708-7533 Debra Lekanof, Government Affairs, dlekanof@swinomish.nsn.us (360) 391-5296 2

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Restoring Salmon for Future Generations Festival Map Entertainment Schedule

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Stewards of the Skagit Fur Flyin’ Fun with NW DockDogs Competition Festival Supports Communities with Charitable Giving 2014 Festival Featured Artist

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Test Your Knowledge Skagit Valley Herald Coloring Contest

Cover Art: The Journey by Nancyé D’Arienzo, 2014 Skagit River Salmon Festival featured artist

DEDICATED TO RESTORING WILD SALMON POPULATIONS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS Help Save Salmon, Become a Volunteer UPCOMING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

October 4: Spawner Survey Workshop Volunteers trained to help count salmon returning to local creeks.

Saturdays in November: Work parties for volunteers of all ages planting native trees and shrubs along local waterways.

December 6: Volunteers trained to help lead tours of the Marblemount Hatchery facility during eagle season weekends.

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elcome to the Skagit River Salmon Festival! We have several exciting changes and additions in store for you this year. First, we’ve relocated to a new venue—Waterfront Park at the Swinomish Casino & Lodge. This grassy waterfront park with snowcapped Mount Baker towering in the distance creates an amazing setting to spend the day celebrating the mighty Skagit River and return of the salmon!

We have a terrific lineup of new activities and entertainment you won’t want to miss, with something for every interest—young or old.

Come watch the Northwest DockDogs Club Challenge—the world’s premier canine aquatics competition. Utilizing a 40-foot pool, Kevin Tate dogs and their owners from Washington, Oregon and Canada Board President Skagit River Salmon Festival will compete to see whose dog can jump the farthest, highest and swim the fastest. It’ll be a thrill to watch these four-legged athletes compete for “Iron Dog” honors.

We’re also introducing a Kidz Zone hosted by the Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County, with lots of energy-burning activities for the younger crowd. Providing smiles all around will be the clown team of Zig Zag & Ragz with their amazing twisted balloon creations and face painting art. And don’t forget to explore FIN the 25-foot migrating chum salmon. Climb inside and you’ll find a beautiful mural depicting watershed habitat and the animals that live there.

Here’s what else you can expect to find at the Festival: • Great bands and musicians to entertain • Local breweries on tap to keep you refreshed • Tasty food choices to select from and enjoy • Artisan wares to browse and purchase • Native storytellers and cultural activities that inform • Arts, crafts, and games for the whole family On behalf of the board of directors, our Festival planning team, sponsors, vendors and volunteers, we thank you for your support and participation in the third annual Skagit River Salmon Festival. Enjoy the day!

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Learning About Our Source Water School program encourages appreciation of precious resource

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ater is one of life’s most precious elements. We have the same amount of water today as we did when the Earth was formed.

getting a cold glass of water. Through community and school group tours of Skagit Public Utility District’s Judy Reservoir, visitors can now discover how their water is cleaned and made safe to drink before it’s piped out to 70,000 people in Skagit County.

Many people take for granted the simple act of turning on a faucet and

Taking Science Outside As a way to create greater awareness around the value of water, Skagit PUD offers area schools a unique science and social studies opportunity called cont. downstream

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The Story of Drinking Water. The program is an exploration of water’s role in our environment and society, with an emphasis on the importance of a safe and reliable water supply.

able for schools served by Skagit PUD water.

Interpretive Displays This summer, colorful interpretive displays were installed inside and out at Judy Reservoir and the Water Treatment Plant for visitors to enjoy.

agulation, flocculation, filtration, and disinfection that drinking water must go through before distribution.

Protecting Water Resources Constant use and pollution threaten The Story of Drinking Water program water resources. Experts estimate that covers subjects and activities such as nonpoint pollution, that is, agriculthe hydrologic cycle, forms of water, tural and urban runoff combined with water supply, water treatment, water “From learning about the different pollution by individuals, threatens our phases in the water cycle to identifying water resources more than industrial distribution, conservation, weather, ecosystems, waterborne diseases, and the varied wildlife found in the Cultus pollution.

Mountain watershed, the displays more. visually reinforce many of the concepts Each of us has a role in keeping water “All activities adhere to science curand processes discussed during tours safe to drink. It’s important to take acriculum, and many include math, social of the facility and a visit to a source studies and language arts,” Skagit PUD water stream,” Tate said.

Community Relations Manager Kevin Seattle artist Jocelyn Curry created the Tate said. beautiful watercolor illustrations and To help teachers take science outside local design firm BrandQuery managed the classroom setting, Skagit PUD also the overall design, fabrication and offers free field trips that include a tour installation of the interpretive displays. of Judy Reservoir, the Water Treatment Visitors learn about the sources of Plant, and a visit into the watershed.

Transportation reimbursement is avail- their water, plus the processes of co-

Students see what microscopic creatures live in the water before it’s cleaned.

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Visiting a stream in the watershed is always a tour highlight.

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tion to conserve and protect our water resources every day.

Skagit PUD hopes The Story of Drinking Water school program and community tours encourage an appreciation for this precious resource and inspires the adoption of personal conservation measures to protect our waters for future generations.

For more information about community group and school tours, please visit SkagitPUD.org or call (360) 424-7104.

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A River Runs Through the Port of Skagit

Commissioner Kevin Ware District One

Commissioner Steven Omdal District Two

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Commissioner Bill Shuler District Three

The Skagit River runs through all three commissioner districts of the Port of Skagit, giving meaning and focus to the port’s vision. That vision is to lead efforts to build a strong economy in Skagit County while valuing the area’s natural assets and great quality of life.

We applaud and support the efforts of the Skagit River Salmon Festival to bring attention to this most valuable of Skagit County resources. Not only does the river lend our county its name and give us an unrivaled sense of place, but it also provides drinking water, salmon habitat, recreation and clean energy. It is a natural treasure.

The Port of Skagit welcomes new or expanding businesses and their employment opportunities at our facilities, and we look forward to working with advocates for the Skagit River as we move forward to achieve our mission of Good Jobs for Our Community.

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Historic Lower Baker Dam was completed in 1925. Behind the 285-foot-high concrete structure sits Lake Shannon, along with the new Lower Baker Floating Surface Collector and Pier, both completed in 2013.

PSE records juvenile salmon run of 1,000,000+

migration in May, the holding areas were thick with salmon smolt. “The raceways that the fish came into were almost black. You couldn’t his spring proved to be a record- even see the bottom sometimes,” smashing season for young PSE Fish and Wildlife Specialist salmon at Baker River in the North Daniel Schoolland said. “That’s a lot Cascades. of fish!”

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The total number of juvenile sockeye and coho collected by the Puget Sound Energy fisheries crew passed the staggering one-million mark. The total this year topped 1,030,000 fish. The previous record, set in 2013, saw more than 827,000 young salmon move through by the end of the season, which ends on July 31 each year.

“We knew we’d get large numbers, but breaking a million was a surprise for everybody,” said PSE Fisheries Supervisor Doug Bruland.

At the height of the outward

PSE fishery workers identified the different species and checked to see if a certain fin had been clipped.

The clippings tell whether the fish is from the nearby hatchery or from the wild.

As recently as the mid-1980s, the salmon population was nearly extinct along the Baker River. Over the past decade, PSE invested more than $150 million for advanced fishenhancement equipment to bring the salmon back to Baker.

Four years ago, PSE completed construction of a large, advanced

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fish hatchery near Upper Baker Dam that dramatically increased the basin’s production of young salmon. PSE crews are now able to help the fish continue swimming downstream and out to sea with the help of two “floating surface collectors” – one at Baker Lake and a newer one at Lake Shannon. Each collector is a 1,000-ton, barge-like structure that safely funnels and holds juvenile salmon for truck transport downstream around the two Baker River dams using socalled “fish taxis.”

The fish taxis are also used to take adult salmon upstream and past the A PSE fisheries biologist collects and counts a juvenile sockeye salmon at one of two dams during the summer.

“We knew we’d get large numbers, but breaking a million was a surprise for everybody.”

– Doug Bruland, PSE Fisheries Supervisor This season’s epic migration sets up the possibility of a record adult return in a couple of years.

“With over a million smolts out this year, we could potentially see anywhere from 6 to 10 percent return. So we could get 60,000 to 100,000 adults back,” Bruland said.

Visit PSE.com to watch video of this exciting milestone.

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PSE Floating Surface Collectors (FSCs). The innovative FSCs are designed to improve downstream migration of juvenile salmon around both PSE dams.

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Restoring Salmon for Future Generations

Students from Conway School learn how to plant trees at The Nature Conservancy’s Fisher Slough restoration site as part of the Junior Stream Stewards program.

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ild salmon play a critical role in our marine and freshwater ecosystems, our economy, our recreation, our culture and our history. However, salmon and their habitat are in trouble. Human

actions through generations have degraded many key habitats that salmon depend on, such as streams, rivers, estuaries and coastal environments. The degradation of this habitat has helped contribute to

a dramatic decline in the number of salmon in our region.

The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to involving

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community volunteers in helping watersheds and learning about local landowners implement habitat ecosystems and salmon habitat. restoration projects to keep our Programs are designed to teach watersheds students about healthy and the benefits of “SFEG’s education programs clean for salmon, clean, healthy are designed to engage people and all watersheds by students in the wonders of living things. engaging them the watershed in which we in hands on Did you know live, the salmon that depend activities in and that SFEG offers around their local on these watersheds, and the free education streams. understanding that healthy programs

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to students In addition to watersheds are good for all throughout our learning, kids are living things.” region? Each also giving back to – Lucy DeGrace, year roughly our communities.

1,800 students Most programs SFEG Outreach Coordinator participate in involve a Concrete students document the condition of Lorenzan Creek. free educational service-learning programs that get kids out of the component where students are cont. downstream p14 classroom exploring our local helping to restore local habitat by

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Festival Map BEER GARDEN

STAGE

SWINOMISH CASINO & LODGE

FLY FISHING

CONSERVATION BOOTHS

FOOD

VENDORS

KIDZ ZONE

CONSERVATION BOOTHS DOCK DOGS

INFO

NCE ENTRA

PARKING

Vendor Booths

ORGANIZATION Booths

Food

American Red Cross-Mount Baker Chapter Children’s Museum of Skagit County Earth Corps Fidalgo Fly Fishers Hibulb Cultural Center & Natural History Preserve Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest National Wildlife Federation Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Puget Sound Energy Skagit Audubon Society Skagit Climate Science Consortium Skagit Conservation District

AJM’s Hawaiian Shaved Ice Big Scoop Bob’s Chowder Bar Cascade Kettle Corn Random Acts of Food Reverie BBQ Swinomish Casino and Lodge

ARTS | CRAFTS | GOODS 5 Dogz Design All About Beads Cabela’s Jellyfish Creations Nancyé D’Arienzo Simply Silver Much More!

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Skagit County Public Works Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group Skagit Land Trust Skagit Public Utility District Skagit Publishing Skagit River Bald Eagle Interpretive Center Skagit River System Cooperative The Nature Conservancy Washington State Department of Ecology Washington State Department of Natural Resources Wolf Hollow WSU Beach Watchers

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Entertainment Schedule 2014 Festival Events Schedule

Puget Sound Dock Dogs

11:00 For fur flyin’ fun catch the Northwest DockDogs Club Challenge—the world’s to premier canine aquatics competition. Dogs and their owners compete in four 6 p.m. areas: Big Air, Extreme Vertical, Speed Retrieve and Iron Dog. It’s high flying canine fun! Thrill at watching these four-legged athletes compete for ‘top dog’ honors.

Canoe Family kicks off the Festival with traditional songs and drumming performed by members of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.

Noon Peter Ali is a Native flutist who creates his music not from notes, but from spirit within so each performance is unique and special.

He plays a variety of Native flutes and shares their stories as well

y Horns & the Alimon Midlife Crisis

as stories of his rich ethnic heritage. Listen to the sounds of eagle,

1:30

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running river, nature and spirit in the flute’s song.

Midlife Crisis & the Alimony Horns is a fun band who for 20+ years have performed their unique kind of dance music to thousands in the Northwest. Delivering a diverse mix of favorite Classic Rock tunes and a few originals from their CD they seem to always load up the dance floor and keep the audience tapping their feet.

3:30

Dmitri Wagoner gets down and plays the blues on his electric guitar. You won’t want to miss this young man.

4:00

Rivertalk plays sophisticated original, world beat dance music inspired by Bob Marley, Carlos Santana, Afro-Cuban jazz, salsa and Afro Pop. Featuring Jan Foster on vocals and a troupe of accomplished musicians including a three-piece horn section, amazing guitar, and rock solid rhythm. You are guaranteed to

Rivertalk

be dancing! *Please note that times may vary.

EVENT NOTES - Festival is free to the public. Free parking.

- Over 25 conservation booths with educational activities.

- Be sure to pick up your passport at any booth in Conservation Alley and bring your completed passport page to the Information Booth for a chance to win prizes.

- Northwest DockDogs Club Challenge will be competing all day at the Festival.

- Saddle up the little buckaroos for pony rides.

- Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County is hosting the Kidz Zone with lots of fun and games.

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Allen Elementary eighth-graders in the Junior Stream Stewards program plant trees along Junior Stream Stewards students from N.P. Creek, a tributary to the Samish River.

Edison Elementary plant trees along a tributary to Lake Samish.

8 am to 8 pm MONDAY- SATURDAY

planting trees, removing invasive species, cleaning up local streams, or creating spaces that are more accessible through trails and signage. Programs are designed for all ages from kindergarten through high school and incorporate many core learning standards that are helping students succeed on standardized tests.

Many local teachers place great value on engaging their students in service-learning projects, and hands on outdoor educational opportunities. Even a one-time experience helps build a sense of understanding and ownership among students and teachers.

Students take great pride in improving their world. With all the testing and performance measures required of schools, a one-time project may be the only time

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Volunteer Jack Middleton measures Friday Creek pH levels with Allen Elementary School students.

teachers can afford to dedicate to service-learning. SFEG’s programs can supply funds to schools that can’t otherwise afford to take students on field trips. “SFEG’s education programs are designed to engage students in the wonders of the watershed in which we live, the salmon that depend on these watersheds, and the understanding that healthy watersheds are good for all living things,” SFEG Outreach Coordinator Lucy DeGrace said.

If you are interested in your child’s school participating in a watershed learning program, please contact the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group for more information. SFEG also offers volunteer opportunities to plant native trees, help in its goskagit.com

native plant nursery, monitor stream health, count returning salmon, and much more. All volunteer projects are based on learning through hands-on activities with opportunities for volunteers of all

ages and in all seasons.

To learn more: www.skagitfisheries. org.

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verything starts and ends with the land and the water,” Swinomish elder Larry Campbell said. “These are the Swinomish teachings and values passed down from generation to generation. We only need to listen, and we will hear their teachings.”

The Swinomish people live in the Skagit, rooted along the Salish Sea. They are the People of the Salmon and their way of life is sustained by their connection to the water and the lands where they have fished, gathered and hunted since time immemorial.

The Swinomish people carry 10,000 years of knowledge about their ancestral lands and waters. They combine their knowledge with contemporary science to care for and protect the natural environment on behalf of their people.

“We paddled the waters of the Skagit and the Salish Sea long before anyone applied

names in English to the places we call home,” Tribal Chairman Brian Cladoosby said. “To us, we live at the most beautiful place on the planet, and I give thanks to our Creator every day for the blessings bestowed on the Swinomish people by Mother Earth.”

The Swinomish honor their ancestors representing four aboriginal bands: Swinomish, Samish, Lower Skagit and Kikiallus, who joined together to form the present-day Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Seven generations ago, in 1855, Swinomish Chiefs and 81 other tribal Chiefs gathered at Múkl-te-óh (present-day Mukilteo) to sign the Treaty of Point Elliot, which ceded land from the Cascade Mountains to the Olympics, from south of Seattle to the Canadian border.

In that treaty, the Tribe reserved their

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Stewards of the Skagit

right to hunt and gather on all open and unclaimed lands.

Swinomish are committed to restoring and protecting not only the six wild runs of salmon in the Skagit, but all the resources of the Salish Sea region. A healthy habitat, with a clean and abundant water supply, allows salmon to survive and return home.

Swinomish believe the health of the Skagit is not only important for its people, but all the people who call the Pacific Northwest home. As a community, they are committed to protecting, restoring and enhancing: • Skagit River wild salmon; • Habitat necessary to sustain wild salmon; • The surface and ground water of the Skagit and surrounding watersheds; • The vast land and forests that make up the Skagit Region.

They work today so that generations will grow ever stronger, and so they, the Swinomish people, will always be the People of the Salmon..

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Speed Retrieve is a sport where teams race against the clock. Each competing dog runs, jumps, swims, and retrieves an object located on an extender at the end of the pool, at a distance of 58 feet from the starting block on the dock.

his year’s entertainment lineup includes the Northwest DockDogs Club Challenge. The sport of DockDogs consists of four disciplines: Big Air is the long jump equivalent for canine athletes. At speeds over 20 mph, Big Air dogs catapult off the end of a 40-foot dock into a 28,000-gallon pool to retrieve a floatable object, like their favorite toy. Jump distances are measured from the end of the dock to where the base of the dog’s tail breaks the water.

Iron Dog is the discipline to determine the best of the best. An Iron Dog is a dog that excels in all three disciplines, and is determined by adding a precise numerical calculation for each of the three disciplines in order to determine the highest score.

Extreme Vertical is a high jump contest in which the dog launches upward in order to knock down a bumper suspended over the water. Runs are shorter, and speed is reduced in order to achieve maximum height at a toy suspended eight feet from the edge of the dock.

Upper Skagit Indian Tribe is a proud sponsor of the Third Annual Second

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he Skagit River Salmon Festival board is committed to supporting the Skagit River, its history and its natural resources. We recognize how vital the community and watershed stewardship are to this annual event.

Part of the Festival’s charitable giving this year will go towards providing a scholarship in Native Environmental Sciences at Northwest Indian College. We share their mission in support of environmental stewardship, conservation and revitalization. We believe in celebrating and protecting the Skagit River watershed for everyone, forever.

In addition, the 2014 Festival will again support the Children’s Museum of Skagit County and its efforts to develop “The Mighty Skagit—A Wondrous Watershed” Exhibit. The exhibit hopes to instill in young people the love of nature, the distinctive charms of the Skagit River watershed and its natural beauty, history and resources.

Skagit River Salmon Festival Board of Directors The Skagit River Salmon Festival celebrates diverse partnerships between local, state and federal governments, tribal communities, local utilities, businesses and nonprofit organizations to inspire conservation of the amazing Skagit River, its rich cultural history and abundant natural resources.

Our board of directors are: Kevin Tate, Skagit Public Utility District Cory Ertel, Puget Sound Energy Alison Studley, Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group Deb Davis Bundy, Skagit Publishing

One Champion marches to the beat of their own drum, but when Champions get together they can make extraordinary harmony that can change the world.

At Shell, we understand that the leading organizations of the 21st Century will be those that embrace innovation, respect diversity and champion inclusion of different peoples and ideas. That’s why the Shell Puget Sound Refinery is the co-lead sponsor of the Champions of Diversity Awards given out annually by Skagit Valley College.

They are designed to honor students, from grades 9 through 12, from Skagit, San Juan and Island Counties high schools who have contributed to diversity on their campuses and in their communities.

One of the main sources for funding these valuable awards, that come with scholarships for these talented students, is the Breakfast of Champions. We’ll be there and we hope you will be too!

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS Wednesday, Oct. 1 • 7:30 – 9 am McIntyre Hall Performing Arts and Conference Center 2501 East College Way, Mount Vernon Questions or to confirm a seat: (360) 416-7821 or anneclark@skagit.edu www.shell.us/psr

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2014 Festival Featured Artist Nancyé D’Arienzo is a pastelist and children’s art teacher who lives and teaches in Mount Vernon. Her choice medium is pastel on archival sandpaper. This combination creates vibrant colors with an opaque finished product thanks to the tooth of the paper, which can hold many layers of color. Nancyé hopes that her work inspires people to continue protecting the beauty and life of the salmon and watershed.

The featured artwork, The Journey, is pastel on sandpaper.

Artist Nancyé D’Arienzo with The piece is daughter Penelope. a beautiful illustration of returning sockeye salmon and was inspired from an image taken by underwater photographer David Hall.

These thoughts came to Nancyé while creating the piece:

The Journey, rough tumult committed bravery to keep the cycle of life...

Going on Keeping on growing in the world below the world.

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Test Your Knowledge 1. The Skagit River supports the largest wintering population of what bird in the continental United States?

A. Trumpter Swans B. Snow Geese C. Seagulls D. Bald Eagles D. Bald eagles feed on chum and coho salmon that have returned to the Skagit and its tributaries to spawn. The eagles arrive in late October or early November and stay into February.

2. How much water flows through the Skagit River every day?

A. 10 Million Gallons B. 10 Billion Gallons C. 1 Billion Gallons D. A lot.

B. 10 billion gallons of water is drained every day from over 2,900 streams in the Skagit River watershed. Enough to fill 500,000 swimming pools.

3. Can you name the five salmon species found in the Skagit River?

Chinook (King), Coho (Silver), Pink (Humpie),

Chum and Sockeye (Kokanee, Red). The Skagit is the only large river system in Washington that contains healthy populations of all five native salmon species and two species of trout— steelhead and cutthroat.

4. The Skagit River basin has supported human populations for how long?

A. 400 years B. 2,000 years C. 11,000 years D. A long time C. People have lived in present-day Skagit County and its environs for over 11,000 years. Today, there are over 118,000 people living in the county including the Indian tribal communities of the Swinomish, Upper Skagit, Sauk-Suiattle and Samish.

5. Can you name the hydroelectric dams located on the Skagit River?

The Diablo, Ross and Gorge hydroelectric dams, which are built above a natural barrier to salmon, supply about 25 percent of the city of Seattle’s power demands. Puget Sound Energy’s Upper Baker and Lower Baker Dams are located on a tributary of the Skagit River. The dams’ reservoirs, Baker Lake and Lake Shannon, are

fed by runoff from the flanks of Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan.

6. How many different kinds of wildlife species live in the Skagit River watershed?

A. 50 B. 102 C. 276 D. 400 C. Not including humans, the Skagit watershed is the home to approximately 276 wildlife species—25 fish, 17 amphibians, 10 reptiles, 73 mammals & 174 birds.

7. True or False: The Skagit River is the longest river on the west coast of the United States?

A. True B. False B False. The Skagit River is more than 160 miles long and the third largest river on the West Coast after the Columbia and Sacramento rivers. It provides about 30 percent of the fresh water flowing into Puget Sound and it’s a main source of our drinking water for Skagit County residents. It’s also home to about 30 percent of all salmon entering Puget Sound.

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SKAGIT RIVER SALMON FESTIVAL

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SALMON FESTIVAL

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Submit your entry at the Skagit Publishing booth at the Skagit River Salmon Festival (Saturday, September 6, 11am to 6pm) or to Skagit Publishing, (1215 Anderson Rd., P.O. Box 578, Mount Vernon, WA 98274) via mail or in person prior to Friday, September 5, 5pm. Winning entries will be printed in the Skagit Valley Herald. Must be 14 years or younger to enter.

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Spawn Aug-Oct

Chinook, also known as king salmon or blackmouth, are silver in color with dark spots, which generally cover all of the head, back, dorsal fin and adipose fin as well as all of the squared tail. During spawning, the body color changes to olive-brown, darker in males.

Teeth are set in black gums inside a gray or black mouth. Chinook are generally the largest of the Pacific salmon and any salmon over 30 pounds is likely a chinook.

(Oncorynchus tshawytscha)

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